Adverb : The explorers trekked upcountry. From Dictionary.com.
With the large majority of the up-country of the Middle. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
They come shouting in from Charleston, bound up-country. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
"You'd better go fishing with me up-country in the morning.". From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
The first destination of the up-country traveller in Java is. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
In the intervals of arranging an up-country tour from monotonous. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
“Here we go a-gain,” Linda said, “High-ho yon up-country.”. From Wordnik.com. [s Vacation] Reference
It was, however, this up-country which had been the mainstay of the. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
The missionaries try to teach the little ones, and at each up-country. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
That chap Harrington, for instance, just got in from two years up-country. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
They refugeed to a farmhouse upon the outskirts of a little up-country village. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
And you are just vain enough to forever keep this before your up-country cousins. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Many of these missionaries live up-country at some mission station far from the town. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
Lombards did sweep in upon her with their up-country virtues and wilderness moralities. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Colonel George S. James received his early education in the academies of the up-country. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
And yet, the feast lacked something; without the women it seemed a rough, up-country thing. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The alliance of the West and the up-country held together in spite of the untoward circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
Chone comes from up-country somewhere in the direction the Professor headed for after leaving Mogok. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
Bengal biggah are sufficient, if it is "Dassee" seed; but four is not too much if it is up-country seed. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
It was the most civilised experience I had had of up-country life since I left Highfield and was very enjoyable. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
When Don Manuel Montuno, the late Governor of Mórong, came with his suite to stay at my up-country bungalow for. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
There should always be a definite understanding as to foreigners proceeding or residing up-country for any purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
They built their houses, churches and schools at distant up-country stations, and they won the love and esteem of the. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
Spent eighteen months in Nam as an advisor, mostly in Saigon, but occasionally up-country and twice out into the Delta. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
She told her mother of her desire to go up-country, and asked whether she would allow her to do so if the opportunity came. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
When he began to starve, he joined the safari of a Muscat trader, traveled up-country, returned to the coast sick with fever. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Each autumn saw thousands of masters with their families and slaves take up the march over the up-country road through Danville. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
That day about noon they came in sight of a little up-country town, which the prisoners soon learned was known as Santa Rosilla. From Wordnik.com. [Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America] Reference
So, one day, Mr. Lane came home, and said he had let the other half to a family from up-country, -- man and wife and little girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
She sat up straight and said it was much hotter than they had it this time of year up-country but nothing at all to complain of yet. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
He came of up-country people, frightened of towns, and so simple that they think Ever-Living Zeus is concerned with no one but them. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The Mysoreans, being up-country men and agriculturists, were not likely even to have seen the sea until they became slaves of Angria. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
She sat up straight, and said it was much hotter than they had it this time of year up-country, but nothing at all to complain of yet. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
I am not pleased with the up-country, and would rather live in Bengal, for I cannot abide sandy plains and a deficiency of vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
He had been sent up-country by the missionaries on business, and was returning through Kwang-ngan when he saw the anti-foreign placard. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Staying longer in such a place was out of the question, and I determined to make my way to the up-country without longer waiting for Jim. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
"Of course, she might get a job up-country, where people are not particular and only want a kind of servant to look after their children.". From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
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